You might be a redneck gardener if.....
you plant carrots in old bath tubs....
or tomatillos in old smokers....
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Semi Wordless Wednesday
Because, let's face it...apparently I don't know how to be wordless!
You might be a redneck gardener if.....
you plant carrots in old bath tubs....
or tomatillos in old smokers....
You might be a redneck gardener if.....
you plant carrots in old bath tubs....
or tomatillos in old smokers....
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
And the Winner is...
First off, I would like to give a big ole THANK YOU to every one who entered my 200th post giveaway! I don't know why, but all my pictures are blurry this morning so I apologize...I probably haven't had enough coffee yet! Everybody's names and extra entries went in to my egg basket....
The Boy,otherwise known as Jethro, took a short pause from his 5 gallon bowl of cereal to pull out a name! (Jethro is a Beverly Hillbillies reference for all of you to young to know who Jethro is!)
Da-da-da-dummmm....the winter is The Wild Magnolia....as seen her in my serial killer handwriting. I just wrote T W M because,well, I am lazy!
So congrads to my friend The Wild Magnolia! Thank you again to all my blogging friends!
The Boy,otherwise known as Jethro, took a short pause from his 5 gallon bowl of cereal to pull out a name! (Jethro is a Beverly Hillbillies reference for all of you to young to know who Jethro is!)
Da-da-da-dummmm....the winter is The Wild Magnolia....as seen her in my serial killer handwriting. I just wrote T W M because,well, I am lazy!
So congrads to my friend The Wild Magnolia! Thank you again to all my blogging friends!
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Awards,Giveaways and Veggies
I am still having trouble keeping up with blog land! I suspect, with the temperatures slowly creeping up into the 90's I will soon be entertaining myself more indoors! The heat index today was supposed to have been 100* ...it's all this coastal humidity! When the winds keep up it is not bad but when we get a still day I turn into some kind of sweat factory! OK,sorry, middle age sweaty woman images may not be how you want to start your day!
First off on my catch up post...I received an award from my bloggin' buddy Texan....thank you!
Now the rules for this award are as follows. Thank the person who gave it to you, share some things about yourself, pass along the award to other bloggers and contact them about their award.
Now,I don't think there is anything that strange or interesting about me...if I were to ask someone who knew me they would probably have a different opinion about the strange part!! Let's see....in 1969 I was abducted by aliens...no, just kidding ,I wasn't even born in 1969!
I have a pair of tiny water frogs that live in a tank amid the ever growing clutter on my desk and I enjoy watching them immensely......I have an unnatural fear of the dark, particularly the outside dark.....I like to "graze" from the yard and the woods.....when I was a teenager I drove a 1965, candy apple red, mustang...I have no regrets.That last one may sound strange to some but it is true non the less...
So to pass this one on to some more of my blogging friends.....
Small Farm Girl - Crazy about country living girl ,like most of us!
Foothills Poultry----all things chicken!
Some-Things Cookin' - Another crazy about the country girl!
The Wild Magnolia -a lover of beautiful words with a country girl heart!
A Goat's View of Eden Hills-Millie Ann Saanen, a lovely goat..because you all know I love those goatie blogs!
There are soo many more blogs out there I absolutely love!
Now I would like to tell you about some giveaways! Let's face it, we all love the giveaway part of blog land!
Eden Hills is giving away a hand made , very cute, window sill cat to celebrate her 100th post!
Broken Teepee is giving away an audio book,The War Lovers,by Evan Thomas. I won Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter from one of her many giveaways a couple of weeks ago and me and The Boy have really enjoyed listening to it on our long trips to town! So, I would love to win another one! She is also giving away some Tropical Traditions shredded coconut! I am a big fan of Tropical Traditions and have been using their stuff for about 5 years now! She has lots of other giveaways going on so go over and check her out! Don't forget to enter my giveaway if you haven't yet!
Now for some farm stuff! I am going to show you some garden picts... please,do not judge me by the size of my weeds!
Apparently I am raising a rather obscene egg plant! This is the only one growing this..um..well..extra appendage! I have never grown egg plant since my boys don't care for it ,I just planted 3 this year for me!
I have lots of green tomatoes...all the many varieties I planted have done well so far. I am still planning on narrowing it down for next year...I guess it will be up to taste since they all are growing and putting on tomatoes!
This plant is in the biggest tomato cage I know of and is already way past the top!
The yellow squash is covered in babies! I feel a batch of squash pickles needing to be made up soon!
These are Roma flat green beans.They have done excellent! I have already picked two big messes off them and they have plenty more and are still blooming! They have a wonderful flavor too! I will definitely be planting these beans again this fall! I do not know how well they can since I only planted a "sample". I will know this fall because I will plant a bigger patch,I really hope they can well.
This corn is called Black Mexican....have to wait and see about it....
Here I have tomatoes growing up the cattle panels, cucumbers growing underneath and speckled butter beans to the right. That is tall grass I pulled up and hung on the top wire of the butter beans to give them something to climb on to get up to the top wire...ingenious..maybe...but mostly I was just too lazy to go back up to the house for garden string!
Here you can see the tomato side,lots of green tomatoes in there! I am workin' on the weeds..but I will tell ya'll the truth..the weeds always,eventually win!
This is the kind of tomato I always think about when I here heirloom! The deeply lobed, pear shaped tomato...this is Goldman's Italian American.
The first 2 rows are purple hull peas and the next is a dry soup bean...Hutterite...
These are supposed to be some of those Chinese long beans,I an excited to see if they will really grow a foot!
Here are some of my Easter Lilies! No,they don't know it is way past Easter!
I had to get a few shots of the sheep happily grazing in the fading light! They have mostly shed off their winter coats..some have a nappy patch or two left! Painted Desert Sheep do not have a usable wool and sheed off their winter coats without having to be sheared. That one looking over her shoulder is Foxy! She and her brother were the first two sheep babies born this year! The Boy named her Foxy because she has a reddish color to her! The girls don't grow horns...
I loved this shot of sheep butts! I couldn't help it, they refused to turn around and smile!
First off on my catch up post...I received an award from my bloggin' buddy Texan....thank you!
Now the rules for this award are as follows. Thank the person who gave it to you, share some things about yourself, pass along the award to other bloggers and contact them about their award.
Now,I don't think there is anything that strange or interesting about me...if I were to ask someone who knew me they would probably have a different opinion about the strange part!! Let's see....in 1969 I was abducted by aliens...no, just kidding ,I wasn't even born in 1969!
I have a pair of tiny water frogs that live in a tank amid the ever growing clutter on my desk and I enjoy watching them immensely......I have an unnatural fear of the dark, particularly the outside dark.....I like to "graze" from the yard and the woods.....when I was a teenager I drove a 1965, candy apple red, mustang...I have no regrets.That last one may sound strange to some but it is true non the less...
So to pass this one on to some more of my blogging friends.....
Small Farm Girl - Crazy about country living girl ,like most of us!
Foothills Poultry----all things chicken!
Some-Things Cookin' - Another crazy about the country girl!
The Wild Magnolia -a lover of beautiful words with a country girl heart!
A Goat's View of Eden Hills-Millie Ann Saanen, a lovely goat..because you all know I love those goatie blogs!
There are soo many more blogs out there I absolutely love!
Now I would like to tell you about some giveaways! Let's face it, we all love the giveaway part of blog land!
Eden Hills is giving away a hand made , very cute, window sill cat to celebrate her 100th post!
Broken Teepee is giving away an audio book,The War Lovers,by Evan Thomas. I won Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter from one of her many giveaways a couple of weeks ago and me and The Boy have really enjoyed listening to it on our long trips to town! So, I would love to win another one! She is also giving away some Tropical Traditions shredded coconut! I am a big fan of Tropical Traditions and have been using their stuff for about 5 years now! She has lots of other giveaways going on so go over and check her out! Don't forget to enter my giveaway if you haven't yet!
Now for some farm stuff! I am going to show you some garden picts... please,do not judge me by the size of my weeds!
Apparently I am raising a rather obscene egg plant! This is the only one growing this..um..well..extra appendage! I have never grown egg plant since my boys don't care for it ,I just planted 3 this year for me!
I have lots of green tomatoes...all the many varieties I planted have done well so far. I am still planning on narrowing it down for next year...I guess it will be up to taste since they all are growing and putting on tomatoes!
This plant is in the biggest tomato cage I know of and is already way past the top!
The yellow squash is covered in babies! I feel a batch of squash pickles needing to be made up soon!
These are Roma flat green beans.They have done excellent! I have already picked two big messes off them and they have plenty more and are still blooming! They have a wonderful flavor too! I will definitely be planting these beans again this fall! I do not know how well they can since I only planted a "sample". I will know this fall because I will plant a bigger patch,I really hope they can well.
This corn is called Black Mexican....have to wait and see about it....
Here I have tomatoes growing up the cattle panels, cucumbers growing underneath and speckled butter beans to the right. That is tall grass I pulled up and hung on the top wire of the butter beans to give them something to climb on to get up to the top wire...ingenious..maybe...but mostly I was just too lazy to go back up to the house for garden string!
Here you can see the tomato side,lots of green tomatoes in there! I am workin' on the weeds..but I will tell ya'll the truth..the weeds always,eventually win!
This is the kind of tomato I always think about when I here heirloom! The deeply lobed, pear shaped tomato...this is Goldman's Italian American.
The first 2 rows are purple hull peas and the next is a dry soup bean...Hutterite...
These are supposed to be some of those Chinese long beans,I an excited to see if they will really grow a foot!
Here are some of my Easter Lilies! No,they don't know it is way past Easter!
I had to get a few shots of the sheep happily grazing in the fading light! They have mostly shed off their winter coats..some have a nappy patch or two left! Painted Desert Sheep do not have a usable wool and sheed off their winter coats without having to be sheared. That one looking over her shoulder is Foxy! She and her brother were the first two sheep babies born this year! The Boy named her Foxy because she has a reddish color to her! The girls don't grow horns...
I loved this shot of sheep butts! I couldn't help it, they refused to turn around and smile!
Friday, May 14, 2010
Stubborn,Hard-Headed ,Hillbilly Woman
Hubby calls me that at least once a day! I think of it as his little pet name for me and just smile...and say,"Yep, you knew that about me when you married me..."
I am going to share with you all where this...ummm.. ...character trait..that is what I am going with, panned out yesterday after a long journey on a particular goal. I have been determined to have fresh milk. Before I moved to the farm I was buying it. Not an easy or cheep task around here,if you manage to find anyone brave enough to sell it it runs $10 a gallon! No that is not a typo I said $10 a gallon! The Boy had to drink every last drop out of his cereal or I threatened his life! So I get to the farm and Hubby gets me a cow,Fiona. Little did we know she was Satan's she Heifer ! Oh ,she seemed fine at first. Then she calved...still fine. Then came milking time...that is when she decided she was going to use my head as a soccer ball! I had worked with her before she calved,practically milked her, so this came as a huge surprise! No matter what we did the she was determined to brain me! Hubby built me a milking stall ,she could kick but she couldn't kick me, well, she couldn't kick me in the head at least! This worked for a short while. Then she figured out she could hide her milk...even if I let the calf suck first to get her started...I could only get a small amount. She got better at this every time I milked her and I got less and less.Fiona continued on her rampage of evil getting worse and worse. She became to barn yard bully and eventually gored the horse and one donkey. I wanted to make her to hamburger but Hubby took her to the vet and had her "tools of darkness" removed. Apparently the devil lived in her horns because after her exorcism, or horn removal, she became a normal cow again....who would have thought.
I am going to have me some fresh milk! So The Boy loves the goats...so I get to thinking we will just have milk goats. All we had is Butter Bean,a whether,and Nibbles who was too young to breed and no buck even if she was old enough. So I turn to everybody's friend, Craig's List. We come home with Doodah who is supposedly bred. Nope she comes into heat. Now we are new to goats at his time and I would have swore that goat had turned into a Banshee! The wailing and hollerin' that goat did ! So...we need another bred goat.We get Guinness and Sweet Pea which turned in to heartbreaking disaster. Lack of experience and just plain naivety led us down a bad path. Sweet Pea had to have a c-section and her baby was dead.Guinness had Murry then died . Murry who was seemingly healthy this whole time died at about 6 weeks.That was such a sad chapter in our new life...
We got us our own Buck ,Mr.Tumnus. He is a very sweet and good natured fellow,and very handsome ! So by this time Nibbles was old enough and Doodah was more than ready according to her Banshee wailings! This meant even longer wait for the elusive fresh milk,baby goats just don't happen over night you know!
A lesser,non hard headed hillbilly woman might have given up by now...not me! So Nibble's finally has her boys and Doodah has her triplets and we are waiting until the time is right.
There is something I need to tell you about Nibbles...if goats could be diagnosed with goatie ADHD she would be the poster goat for it! Training her to milk has been...interesting to say the least. I had been leaving it up to The Boy to get her used to the stand and getting...handled ! A week goes buy and I have no milk...I ask what is going on and he tells me she won't stay still.Well, of course not, it is Nibbles after all! So I make him a Velcro hobble for her. No go ,she is too strong for it .So, I decide I am going to get some milk one way or another, I have waited long enough!
I go out to appraise the situation. I have my milk pan in hand...I give Nibbles a steely gaze ,she looks at me like a brainless idiot. Surly, I think, I can get me some milk out of this crazy ADHD goat. She hops up on the stanchion and begins eating. Well that was easy...maybe too easy! I put my pan under her and go to milk and she is still from the mid-body up, except for her big ole rubbery Nibble lips hoovering up that feed at light speed! She has got to be setting some sort of record! Now from the waist down..wait,I don't think goats have waist...well you know where I mean! From the waist down she is doing something akin to Fred Astaire on crack. "What the heck is wrong with your goat?!?!" I am genuinely ....perplexed! Well....I am getting some milk from this goat one way or another! I tell The Boy,"Grab on to them back legs because we are fixen to tag team wrestle this crazy goat!"
And we did, and we did it again the next day and we will ever day until she decides to surrender and GIVE ME MY MILK! I have been waiting a year and a half for this milk and I am going to get it even if The Boy has to take a goat hoof to the head! No, no, I am just kidding,but I am getting my milk! I have been dreaming of fresh milk for so long...I was a little nervous at the first sip,I had never actually had goats milk before. I had heard from some it is horrible and some it is delicious.....and I have to say YUM! It was really good!..Next week I start with Doodah. Then It really will be tag team wrestling..the Goaties vs. The People! Maybe I should say the Goaties vs.The Stubborn Hard-Headed Hilly Billy Woman and her Offspring!
I am going to share with you all where this...ummm.. ...character trait..that is what I am going with, panned out yesterday after a long journey on a particular goal. I have been determined to have fresh milk. Before I moved to the farm I was buying it. Not an easy or cheep task around here,if you manage to find anyone brave enough to sell it it runs $10 a gallon! No that is not a typo I said $10 a gallon! The Boy had to drink every last drop out of his cereal or I threatened his life! So I get to the farm and Hubby gets me a cow,Fiona. Little did we know she was Satan's she Heifer ! Oh ,she seemed fine at first. Then she calved...still fine. Then came milking time...that is when she decided she was going to use my head as a soccer ball! I had worked with her before she calved,practically milked her, so this came as a huge surprise! No matter what we did the she was determined to brain me! Hubby built me a milking stall ,she could kick but she couldn't kick me, well, she couldn't kick me in the head at least! This worked for a short while. Then she figured out she could hide her milk...even if I let the calf suck first to get her started...I could only get a small amount. She got better at this every time I milked her and I got less and less.Fiona continued on her rampage of evil getting worse and worse. She became to barn yard bully and eventually gored the horse and one donkey. I wanted to make her to hamburger but Hubby took her to the vet and had her "tools of darkness" removed. Apparently the devil lived in her horns because after her exorcism, or horn removal, she became a normal cow again....who would have thought.
I am going to have me some fresh milk! So The Boy loves the goats...so I get to thinking we will just have milk goats. All we had is Butter Bean,a whether,and Nibbles who was too young to breed and no buck even if she was old enough. So I turn to everybody's friend, Craig's List. We come home with Doodah who is supposedly bred. Nope she comes into heat. Now we are new to goats at his time and I would have swore that goat had turned into a Banshee! The wailing and hollerin' that goat did ! So...we need another bred goat.We get Guinness and Sweet Pea which turned in to heartbreaking disaster. Lack of experience and just plain naivety led us down a bad path. Sweet Pea had to have a c-section and her baby was dead.Guinness had Murry then died . Murry who was seemingly healthy this whole time died at about 6 weeks.That was such a sad chapter in our new life...
We got us our own Buck ,Mr.Tumnus. He is a very sweet and good natured fellow,and very handsome ! So by this time Nibbles was old enough and Doodah was more than ready according to her Banshee wailings! This meant even longer wait for the elusive fresh milk,baby goats just don't happen over night you know!
A lesser,non hard headed hillbilly woman might have given up by now...not me! So Nibble's finally has her boys and Doodah has her triplets and we are waiting until the time is right.
There is something I need to tell you about Nibbles...if goats could be diagnosed with goatie ADHD she would be the poster goat for it! Training her to milk has been...interesting to say the least. I had been leaving it up to The Boy to get her used to the stand and getting...handled ! A week goes buy and I have no milk...I ask what is going on and he tells me she won't stay still.Well, of course not, it is Nibbles after all! So I make him a Velcro hobble for her. No go ,she is too strong for it .So, I decide I am going to get some milk one way or another, I have waited long enough!
I go out to appraise the situation. I have my milk pan in hand...I give Nibbles a steely gaze ,she looks at me like a brainless idiot. Surly, I think, I can get me some milk out of this crazy ADHD goat. She hops up on the stanchion and begins eating. Well that was easy...maybe too easy! I put my pan under her and go to milk and she is still from the mid-body up, except for her big ole rubbery Nibble lips hoovering up that feed at light speed! She has got to be setting some sort of record! Now from the waist down..wait,I don't think goats have waist...well you know where I mean! From the waist down she is doing something akin to Fred Astaire on crack. "What the heck is wrong with your goat?!?!" I am genuinely ....perplexed! Well....I am getting some milk from this goat one way or another! I tell The Boy,"Grab on to them back legs because we are fixen to tag team wrestle this crazy goat!"
And we did, and we did it again the next day and we will ever day until she decides to surrender and GIVE ME MY MILK! I have been waiting a year and a half for this milk and I am going to get it even if The Boy has to take a goat hoof to the head! No, no, I am just kidding,but I am getting my milk! I have been dreaming of fresh milk for so long...I was a little nervous at the first sip,I had never actually had goats milk before. I had heard from some it is horrible and some it is delicious.....and I have to say YUM! It was really good!..Next week I start with Doodah. Then It really will be tag team wrestling..the Goaties vs. The People! Maybe I should say the Goaties vs.The Stubborn Hard-Headed Hilly Billy Woman and her Offspring!
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Life is Good
I was awarded the LIFE IS GOOD award from Teresa at Eden Hills.It is a great blog, she does a lot of cool stuff from raising goats to making her own wine!
1. What would your prefect day consist of?
Any happy day spent with my boys!
2. How would you describe yourself if you were an item of clothing?
Can you wear a crazy quilt?!?!?! I think I would be something hand knitted out of soft hand spun wool. It would probably be nerdy and out of style,haha!
3. What hobbies are you currently working on?
Gardening would be the big one right now.Although my new favorite is knitting but I haven't had time for that in a while! I guess my whole life is a hobby since I live on a Hobby Farm!
4. Walking in the woods in wellies or bare foot on the beach?
I love the sea,not the tropical sea,the cold,waves crashing on rocks,chilled wind in my face tangling my hair,roaring north sea! That being said, my heart longs for the mountains.The mountains are where I belong...someday.
5. Have you ever hugged or sang to a tree?
I have the overwhelming urge sometimes to lay my hands on trees! I know it sounds crazy but I just want to touch them and feel their energy!
6. Growing your own veggies or nipping to the supermarket?
Grow my own! Well...for the most part!
7. Have you found anyone exciting in your family tree?
I have tried tracking it down a little.My GG Grandpa,I think, came over from Ireland and a GG grandma was supposedly a Choctaw Indian.Not very exciting I am afraid!
8. Slap up meal in a posh restaurant or fish ‘n’ chips from the wrapper?
This ole hillbilly woman doesn't do posh!.
9. Which element do you most resonate with, Earth, Air, Fire or water?
Earth.I love the dirt,the smell of it ,the color of it ,the magic of it....
10. Do you believe in fairy’s?
Yes,and gnomes too!I have so many blog friends so it is hard to choose who to pass this on too...
Texan, my great blogging buddy and my friend!
Polly, at Polly' Path , she has a great blog about homesteading!
Nekkid Chicken she is a homeschooling homesteader!
DebH at Dakota Goats
Barbara at 3 Acre Homestead
Tails from the Williamson's Trails,she is a sweetheart!
A new friend at Life with Jack and Jill
I would also choose Isobelle, at Isobelle Golightly the Beautiful Goat but she got the award with me!
I would choose sooo many more wonderful blogs but it takes time to do all the links and I am short on time these day...I love getting awards,I just hate having to choose who to pass them along to. Is that blogger's guilt...haha!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Giveaway
In a slightly belated 200the post celebration I am having the traditional blogger giveaway! I would like to thank all my wonderful blogging friends for being such...well..good friends! I truly enjoy being a part of all your lives through cyber space! Do they still call it cyber space any more or is that out dated and ole fogey-ish? Hmmm...I will have to ask The Boy!
So...the prize will be... The Double-Up Grill and Panini Press !
All you have to do for a chance to win is leave me a comment! If you would like 5 extra entries just blog about me with a link to my giveaway and then leave me 5 extra comments saying that you did...you all know how this game is played! That's it, easy-peasy! The drawing will be in 2 weeks ...that will be...on the 25th! So good luck everybody!
So...the prize will be... The Double-Up Grill and Panini Press !
All you have to do for a chance to win is leave me a comment! If you would like 5 extra entries just blog about me with a link to my giveaway and then leave me 5 extra comments saying that you did...you all know how this game is played! That's it, easy-peasy! The drawing will be in 2 weeks ...that will be...on the 25th! So good luck everybody!
Monday, May 10, 2010
Mother's Day Goodies
I hope everyone had a happy Mother's Day! Mine was great! We started the day by going to church...well,we actually start every day by tending to critters,lol! I did not get to have The Boy sit with me because he works up stairs on the audio visual part of the church service. Then we went out to eat some Mexican food and then to Home Depot where I was instructed to buy what ever plants I wanted with the condition they had to be things that lived along time so when I looked at it years later I would remember my boys got it for me! I picked out a red Crepe Myrtle....
I have wanted one of these red ones for a long time and they have been hard to find so it was like it was meant to be for my special day!
While I was plant shopping the boys were off getting me a porch swing!
When we moved here there was a dilapidated porch swing hanging under a big oak.I loved that swing but it fell apart...so now I have a new one! I will love being able to sit here in the shade and just watch...the birds,the woods.... the grass grow!
I told Hubby he didn't have to do so much for me and he said ,"Well,they don't have a wives day so I will have to use Mother's Day instead." That's my Hubby,I love him! Not just when he is buying me stuff either! I love him all the time!
Ole Bessie,you all remember her right? She is our "new" 1970 International Harvester tractor.Well she got her first accessory ! A bush hog!
The boys were fighting over who would get to shred the pasture first! I just love that my kid is such a country boy! Oh, she also got a new muffler,the guy we got her from had put a glass pack on her! You want to go deaf? Just ride around on a tractor with a glass pack sticking out the top!
I have my giveaway planned! That will be tomorrows post!
I have wanted one of these red ones for a long time and they have been hard to find so it was like it was meant to be for my special day!
While I was plant shopping the boys were off getting me a porch swing!
When we moved here there was a dilapidated porch swing hanging under a big oak.I loved that swing but it fell apart...so now I have a new one! I will love being able to sit here in the shade and just watch...the birds,the woods.... the grass grow!
I told Hubby he didn't have to do so much for me and he said ,"Well,they don't have a wives day so I will have to use Mother's Day instead." That's my Hubby,I love him! Not just when he is buying me stuff either! I love him all the time!
Ole Bessie,you all remember her right? She is our "new" 1970 International Harvester tractor.Well she got her first accessory ! A bush hog!
The boys were fighting over who would get to shred the pasture first! I just love that my kid is such a country boy! Oh, she also got a new muffler,the guy we got her from had put a glass pack on her! You want to go deaf? Just ride around on a tractor with a glass pack sticking out the top!
I have my giveaway planned! That will be tomorrows post!
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Long Time No Blog
Well,as most of my farm friends know, some times it just gets unbelievably busy and that has happened to me these last few weeks! At last I feel somewhat in balance and caught up now! The garden is going good,babies are growing, the weather has been agreeable, my machine gun sneezing has stopped and the seemingly endless trips to the chiropractor are fewer. Because you all know how it is,when you are at you absolute busiest is when your body falls apart! Middle age..phtzst ! The most important and best thing ,Hubby is home!
Nibble's boys,Tube Sock and Hoss, are almost ready to go to new homes.I have to admit I will be sad to see them go .They are so sweet and tame...but we already have a wether,Butter Bean,so we can't really keep two more.They will make wonderful pets for some one and we are going to try and make sure the go to a home that they will be just that and not BBQ.
Doodah's babies are not as tame as Nibble's.They are not wild but they do not have the same disposition as the first two.Bo Diddly is pretty close though....
Harley will come for scratchins' if you sit down somewhere..
Lola will come over eventually but she definitely has a wild side! She is the runt but in typical runt fashion she is a rooter tooter!
My Buff Orpington hen hatched 9 out of a dozen turkey eggs! So I have 2 other hens sitting on some turkey eggs now. I haven't decided if I want to sell the 9 babies or keep them for us....I think they will sell since Bourbon Reds always seem to sell out at the hatchery's. I guess there is no way of knowing until I try!
We have a batch of baby bunnies...only 4 this time.This doe always looses a few....she had 7.
My batch of bannie chicks are doing great! They are still in a coop since they are not big enough not to be carried off by hawks! I have killed two 5 ft plus chicken snakes this week.One was in the coop,but it was full of golf balls instead of eggs! I am glad because it was in with my girls sitting on the turkey eggs,so many times I have lost the eggs under my broody hens to these snakes!
The font half of the pasture is finally done! We have happy critters in there! Hubby had remarked how Anna Bell, our Dexter calf that was born last spring, has never had that kind of grass in her life.We went straight into drought last spring and no grass grew so she has only had hay. I know grass is best but when nature doesn't cooperate you got to do what you got to do!
The Boy,my baby, only 13 years old ,is now 2 inches taller than me! He is standing at 5 foot 7 inches ! His favorite thing to do is to come up to me and say,"Awww,my short little Momma,"in a voice like he is talking to a baby! 13 years old...yeah!
Being such an old place you would have thought it would be covered with flowers and the like.Nope.The only thing here when we moved in was one,small,half dead rose bush in the front yard. I am working on covering this place with flowers...but it is going to take a while before we get that old home place feel. Here are a few things that looked good this spring...
This was a great year for roses! Here is the white yarrow blooming...I found some red a few days ago and had to buy it! I can't wait to see it bloom!
This is some egg plant in one of my raised beds. That is purple basil behind it and there are some leeks in there too...
The tomatoes in the raised bed are huge! Some of the ones in the garden are pretty big but not this big! Plus I have some green tomatoes on plants in both places! My mouth is already watering! Of course,in true southern style, the first dozen or so that get big will not get to ripen! Got to fry those yummy green tomatoes up! If you have never eaten fried green tomatoes you are missing out!
I noticed I have passed my 200th post! I think this calls for a give away! Next week I think.......
Nibble's boys,Tube Sock and Hoss, are almost ready to go to new homes.I have to admit I will be sad to see them go .They are so sweet and tame...but we already have a wether,Butter Bean,so we can't really keep two more.They will make wonderful pets for some one and we are going to try and make sure the go to a home that they will be just that and not BBQ.
Doodah's babies are not as tame as Nibble's.They are not wild but they do not have the same disposition as the first two.Bo Diddly is pretty close though....
Harley will come for scratchins' if you sit down somewhere..
Lola will come over eventually but she definitely has a wild side! She is the runt but in typical runt fashion she is a rooter tooter!
My Buff Orpington hen hatched 9 out of a dozen turkey eggs! So I have 2 other hens sitting on some turkey eggs now. I haven't decided if I want to sell the 9 babies or keep them for us....I think they will sell since Bourbon Reds always seem to sell out at the hatchery's. I guess there is no way of knowing until I try!
We have a batch of baby bunnies...only 4 this time.This doe always looses a few....she had 7.
My batch of bannie chicks are doing great! They are still in a coop since they are not big enough not to be carried off by hawks! I have killed two 5 ft plus chicken snakes this week.One was in the coop,but it was full of golf balls instead of eggs! I am glad because it was in with my girls sitting on the turkey eggs,so many times I have lost the eggs under my broody hens to these snakes!
The font half of the pasture is finally done! We have happy critters in there! Hubby had remarked how Anna Bell, our Dexter calf that was born last spring, has never had that kind of grass in her life.We went straight into drought last spring and no grass grew so she has only had hay. I know grass is best but when nature doesn't cooperate you got to do what you got to do!
The Boy,my baby, only 13 years old ,is now 2 inches taller than me! He is standing at 5 foot 7 inches ! His favorite thing to do is to come up to me and say,"Awww,my short little Momma,"in a voice like he is talking to a baby! 13 years old...yeah!
Being such an old place you would have thought it would be covered with flowers and the like.Nope.The only thing here when we moved in was one,small,half dead rose bush in the front yard. I am working on covering this place with flowers...but it is going to take a while before we get that old home place feel. Here are a few things that looked good this spring...
This is some egg plant in one of my raised beds. That is purple basil behind it and there are some leeks in there too...
The tomatoes in the raised bed are huge! Some of the ones in the garden are pretty big but not this big! Plus I have some green tomatoes on plants in both places! My mouth is already watering! Of course,in true southern style, the first dozen or so that get big will not get to ripen! Got to fry those yummy green tomatoes up! If you have never eaten fried green tomatoes you are missing out!
I noticed I have passed my 200th post! I think this calls for a give away! Next week I think.......
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